Steamboat Rock is a city in Hardin County, Iowa, United States.

[3] It was named from a large rock on the river bluff which is said to resemble a queue of steamboats from a distance.

[5] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.55 square miles (1.42 km2), all land.

[6] Steamboat Rock is located on the Iowa River, at a point where the river marks the east edge of the Altmont Moraine, the glacial moraine that marks the east border of the Des Moines Lobe of the Wisconsin Glaciation.

The river valley here is a deep gorge through the sandstone bedrock underlying the moraine.

Unlike most of Iowa, where prairie dominated, this area was historically woodland.

[7] Designated as having a humid continental climate, this region typically has a large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters.

42.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 21.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

35.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 22.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

The city was covered on a segment of the 60 Minutes television news program on May 7, 2006, in regard to its production of ethanol.

The former was established on July 1, 1992, by the merger of the Steamboat Rock and Wellsburg school districts.